<div class="quote_poster">Laker_fan Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Didn't he just sell his shares in the Vitamin Water company for $400m dollars? He's got to be up there with Jay-Z/Diddy now in terms of wealth.</div> Uh, no. The vitamin water company itself was bought by Coca Cola for that much, not 50's shares.
^ Nah, the company was sold for 4 billion. He was originally said to have a 10% stake in it, but it turns out hes actually making 100,000,000 instead of 400 mill.
<div class="quote_poster">Sasha Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">So, then why are you making this thread? To show how he puts business first, and music second. That's not just 50, that's the whole music business, and especially the hip-hop genre.</div> No its not, I can name you hundreds of acts who put song meaning ahead of $$$
I don't like his songs usually, but yeah I have to admit that he has GREAT success in bussiness. In fact, he even has some listenable songs. BTW, 50 Cent and his Gorillas are coming to Estonia in the 30th of July.
i really dont see the point of "musical artists" like 50 cent, if you can even call it music. i really disslike his aggressiveness towards everyone and the way he acts so touch and arrogant, though he hasnt really got any evidence of being cool or tough, just a facade. it seems very childish that someone his age would act the way he does. what are his songs about? every song is "i have alot of money, i like girls who dress like ho's, if you dont like it ill get you with my gang (which seems to only have 5 or 6 members, not very scary) and then i will then go to a club and touch woman at will and spend alot of money on drinks though i dont really care because i have alot of money". This is what i hear every time i hear his "songs", which is extremely rarely, thank god. I have always loved hip-hop, but people like 50 cent tend to ruin the genre by turning it against its basic message and values, that money isnt important, not to sell out, fighting for your rights etc. thats the hip-hop i like, any hip-hop artist who beleives in that message and expresses it through their art i truly admire, but people like 50 cent dominate the music and turn it into a commercial oppurtunity for any old person to make money out of, so long as they act touch and brag about it constantly so people will by their music. consumerism at its finest, or maybe at its worst.
<div class="quote_poster">AKIRA Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">i really disslike his aggressiveness towards everyone and the way he acts so touch and arrogant, though he hasnt really got any evidence of being cool or tough, just a facade.</div> Exactly. He knows he isnt any of those things, that image is just what sells.
50 thinks he is hard, there is no way he's putting up a facade, he's a moron. His music blows hard, too. I can't believe this idiot is still around, I think his biggest buyers are those 7th grade - sophomore suburban kids who think it's cool to be a gangster. I've never seen a matured person even looking at a 50 cent cd. The only cool thing he's ever done was being an amateur boxer.
<div class="quote_poster">Mamba Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">50 thinks he is hard, there is no way he's putting up a facade, he's a moron. His music blows hard, too. I can't believe this idiot is still around, I think his biggest buyers are those 7th grade - sophomore suburban kids who think it's cool to be a gangster. I've never seen a matured person even looking at a 50 cent cd. The only cool thing he's ever done was being an amateur boxer.</div> You' really thinks he thinks he has credibilty when he snitches to the cops, surrounds himself with heavy security and lives out in Connecticut? 50 has millions upon millions of dollars, I think being a street thug is the last thing on his mind, its just an image that sells records.
I don't think it will sell records any more though, people are over him. He's not cool anymore, I'd be surprised if his new record dominated the charts for weeks in a row.
<div class="quote_poster">NTC Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">No its not, I can name you hundreds of acts who put song meaning ahead of $$$</div> Yeah, the underground cats. I'm thinking more of the mainstream. I really can't think of a mainstream act that values their art. It's an oxymoron in a way.
I actually give some props to 50 (not for his music) but for his business sense...a lot of rappers don't know what "investment" means and now he's living good off of 400 million dollars from vitamin water..........congrats to him.
although I'm not a fan of his music (and he has made some wack songs...Candy Shop, Amusement Park, etc.) I've never considered him to be the "wack of all wackness".
ummm <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">A recent SOHH.com article states that the album will be released on July 31, 2007. He claims that his album is the best album in the last 20 years. [5] On June 1 Saigon posted on his myspace blog that Atlantic Records doesn't seem to have the desire to release his album because he is a real artist and not a "jingle writer" and they only care about the money not the music. The album will be released independently if Atlantic will not release it </div> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Greatest_...Saigon_album%29 umm i don't know too much about saigon, i heard pain in my life i thought it was a real good song, and he said "its going to be the best cd in 20 years" ( im sure a lot of people think that about their cds) but the fact that a record company doesn't want to release his cd because its not a "jingle writer" shows that companies don't even want to produce "real rappers" and would rather put out 50 cent, jibbs, mims cds because they sell. even esablshed rappers who are considered the best of all time like nas can't even sell a million records while 50 sold more than 3 for his last too i believe. so its all about making money and from what i see Diddy, Jay-z, and 50 know all about making money
<div class="quote_poster">Mamba Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Uh, no. The vitamin water company itself was bought by Coca Cola for that much, not 50's shares.</div> LOL, $400m for a vitamin water company with that kind of a turnover is pretty darn cheap. Ed! is right, the company sold for around $4bn not $400m lol.
